A new IMAS and CSIRO collaborative study has found that balloons are the highest-risk plastic debris item for seabirds — they are 32 times more likely to kill than ingesting hard plastics. Researchers from IMAS, CSIRO, and ACE CRC looked at the cause of death of 1,733 seabirds from 51 species and found that one in three ...
Did you know there are no wild alpacas? These adorable, docile South American ruminants are raised mainly for their soft wool. They can mostly be found in herds on farms, but some people keep them as pets, too. And occasionally, one climbs into a taxi for a trip to town. Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, or Pinterest
Usually, soft-bodied species like spiders aren’t fossilized in rock-like animals with bones and teeth. More often, ancient spiders and insects are more likely to be discovered preserved in amber. Yet a new paper in the Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, co-written by a University of Kansas researcher, describes spider fossils found in an area of Korean ...
USC researchers, studying bones at the L.A. County Natural History Museum, have found evidence of a fearsome shark taking to the sky to take down a pterosaur, a formidable flying reptile. It was a prehistoric clash of the ages that didn’t end pretty when a monster in the sky clashed with the beast of the deep. The ...
The popularity of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is growing rapidly among people who are seeking alternative healthcare remedies rather than relying on Western medicine alone. With the World Health Organization (WHO) poised to recognize traditional Chinese medicine as legitimate medicine starting next year, interest in Chinese medicine is expected to boom. However, many wildlife conservationists ...
When we mere humans are standing outside bundled from head to toe and wincing in the wind, it may seem amazing — even troublesome — that the woodland creatures around us can bear the cold all day without so much as a pair of mittens. But one doesn’t need to worry about how they’re faring, even in ...
During the Song Dynasty, a hunter from Yangshan County (in present-day Guangdong Province) had caught some wild game, such as hares and pheasants, and was ready to go home. Suddenly, an elephant walked toward him. He stepped back to avoid it, but it was too late. The animal came to the hunter and wrapped its ...
Sixty-nine pharmaceutical compounds have been detected in stream insects, some at concentrations that may threaten animals that feed on them, such as trout and platypuses. When these insects emerge as flying adults, they can pass this drug pollution on to spiders, birds, bats, and other streamside foragers. These findings by an international team of researchers ...
Hujing, a small island off the coast of Taiwan, is trying to attract tourism and boost the local economy by transforming the region into a cat-paradise. Various artwork related to cats is also being installed throughout the island. Cat tourism Hujing has a very low population of around 200 people, most of whom are aging. ...
Hundreds of hikers each day pass by the fallen boulder along the Bright Angel Trail in Grand Canyon National Park. It might otherwise go unnoticed except for the 28 indentations — sloping tiny footprints left behind by a small, reptile-like creature about 310 million years ago — that cover the rock’s expansive surface. Steve Rowland, ...
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